{"id":205,"date":"2009-01-08T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2009-01-10T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T07:31:53","slug":"4-tips-for-proofing-your-prose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/4-tips-for-proofing-your-prose\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Tips for Proofing Your Prose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tons of deadlines this month, and I meant to post these tips earlier in the week. Time got away from me. Please use these techniques for essays with upcoming deadlines.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Give yourself a break. <\/strong>Put the application away for a day, overnight, several hours, or at least a coffee break. (More is better, but don't miss the deadline.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Print out the essay or any document that you want to proof.<\/strong> For some reason, changing the medium helps to restore your critical perspective.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Change your location<\/strong> when you proof. Move to an easy chair or to the kitchen table. Anywhere but where you have been writing and editing forever.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Read the essays out loud.<\/strong> E-nun-ciating. Reading aloud will automatically slow you down and prevent you from skimming. Additionally, your ear will catch awkward sentences and errors that your eye alone may miss.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you want professional editing that saves you time, please check out Accepted.com's professional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/services\">personal statement and application essay editing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tons of deadlines this month, and I meant to post these tips earlier in the week. Time got away from me. Please use these techniques for essays with upcoming deadlines.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,95,70,39,40,52,66,48,44,97,94,96,46],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-school-life","tag-cornell-johnson","tag-duke-fuqua","tag-georgetown-mcdonough","tag-mba-admissions","tag-mit-sloan","tag-northwestern-kellogg","tag-nyu-stern","tag-stanford-gsb","tag-ucla-anderson","tag-unc-kenan-flagler","tag-usc-marshall","tag-uva-darden","tag-yale-som","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}